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  • Twenty Minutes: The Adverb [19/07/2007] (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Twenty Minutes
    Producer
    Aasiya Lodhi

    Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme broadcaster Ian McMillan is joined by his guest, poet and novelist Fred D’Aguiar who introduces his own commissioned piece...

  • Twenty Minutes: The Adverb [09/09/2007] (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Twenty Minutes

    Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Paul Allen’s guest is the writer and former diplomat Rory Stewart who chooses his favourite writing about the rhetoric of...

  • Twenty Minutes: The Adverb [27/08/2007] (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Twenty Minutes
    Producer
    Aasiya Lodhi

    Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Ian McMillan is joined by the historian Tristram Hunt who discusses Shakespeare’s vision of kingship and chooses his...

  • Twenty Minutes: The Adverb [07/09/2007] (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Twenty Minutes

    Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Paul Allen’s guest is the novelist Kate Mosse who chooses and discusses her favourite writing on the subject of leadership....

  • Twenty Minutes: The Adverb [30/08/2007] (2007 Radio)

    aka: Adverb

    Series
    Twenty Minutes
    Producer
    Aasiya Lodhi

    Radio programme. In this episode of the BBC Proms’ literary interval programme Ian McMillan is joined by children’s writer Jamila Garvin who presents her favourite writing on the subject of ‘Other...

  • Shakespeare Says ... (2007 Multimedia)

    Series
    Shakespeare Says...
    Producer
    Paul Fleming

    Online videoblog hosted by the ‘Dark Lady’ alias E-Verse Contessa Jessica who offers a lexical compendium of words that Shakespeare coined from A-Z. Each weekly blog posting focuses on a different...

  • Quality of Mercy from ‘The Merchant of Venice’ The (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Adventures in Poetry
    Producer
    Sara Davies

    Third episode in a radio series exploring the "background, effect, and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems". Peggy Reynolds discusses the linguistic, legal and theological complexities of Portia’s...

  • Hamlet Stooged! (2007 Video)

    Director
    Jacqui Carroll

    A one-act take on Hamlet in the stand-up comedy genre, The boy/man, accompanied by dog Horatio and his air guitar, turns up in a dream/nightmare world. The original text becomes an amalgam of The Simpsons,...

  • Shakespeare Chronicles (2006 Multimedia, Radio)

    Series
    State of Things, The

    Current affairs radio programme hosted by Frank Stasio. Amongst his guests is Duke University law professor James Boyle, who talks about his portrayal of the centuries-old Shakespeare authorship debate in...

  • In Search of Classic Authors (2005 Video)

    Explores the countryside which inspired three of England’s greatest writers: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and William Shakespeare.